Nikolai Vatutin
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of
Vatutin ib c. the 1940s
Vatutin (2nd from right) with officers of the Northwestern Front, February 1942
Vatutin in 1943
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Banderite faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942, existing until the 1950s.
Nikolai Vatutin
…for the Red Army's offensives to the west and the southwest of Kiev and the eventual liberation of the city. He was ambushed in February 1944 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and died from his injuries in April. Vatutin was born in Chepukhino village in the Valuysky Uyezd, Voronezh Governorate (named Vatutino, Belgorod Oblast…
A UPA propaganda poster. The OUN/UPA's formal greeting is written in Ukrainian on two of horizontal lines Glory to Ukraine – Glory to (her) Heroes. The soldier is standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Taras Bulba-Borovets with his staff at a pro-German demonstration in the district of Sarny, September 1941
UPA Commanders left to right: Oleksander Stepchuk, Ivan Klimchak, Nikon Semeniuk 1941–1942
A UPA leaflet, which reads "No to Yoska (Joseph Stalin), no to Fritz (Hitler)"